Joy Thief or Joy Giver?

 

 

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Are you a happiness helper or a fun sucker?

Happiness helpers spread the love with smiles, encouragement, laughter, and an upbeat positive out look. Fun suckers steal other people’s enjoyment with their serious faces, grumpy attitude, negative woe is me reaction.

A friend of mine and her husband were planning a summer trip. For them part of the fun was in the planning and anticipation of the excursion. The wife, a teacher, has a good amount of vacay in the summer. Her husband was able to line up some well deserved time off during July.  As they were telling their extended family about their upcoming trip, the sister-in-law got pouty. “We never go on a vacation,” she whined.

She was sucking fun out of their announcement moment by bringing the attention to herself and her plight. 

She is a fun sucker.

Another woman told me how her husband kept talking about how much each activity they did on their vacation cost. He was so focused on the money (within the budget they had previously agreed upon) that he took the fun out of each event they participated in.

He is a fun sucker.

A child tells his parents he got an A- on an assignment. His parents reply,”Why the minus?”

They are fun suckers, joy stealers.

Let’s bring joy to  one another and leave the “anti-fun”  behind.

Spread the joy!

May the righteous be glad and rejoice before God; may they be happy and joyful.

Psalm 68:3

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